Favourite Drawings from 2016

Yes, HELO!

And I’m back and as promised another post similar to the last, this time I am showing you my favourite drawings I created from last year. 

These drawings and sketches were my attempt as an artist to try and figure out where my love and talents were.

Result? I LOVED IT ALL! So helpful right? (Don’t worry I’m seeking professional help) No but seriously, I found out last year that the more traditional the better suited my talents were. This led me to my live drawing classes; which will be presented in a later post, and these guys love the traditional mediums.

What do you guys think about me creating a video for the techniques I learnt? Would you be interested in my findings, or should I jump strait into a tutorial for sketching? Let me know what you think in the comments bellow, or hit me up via email, twitter or comment on one of the many social media links (to the right). Click whichever is most convenient for you!

Until next time my sweet cheeks,

Chow4noW

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My Favorite Paintings of 2016

Hello, and here I am so happy to show you my favourite pictures I did last year.  And for your convenience I’ve popped them into a dinky little slideshow.

OH! You’re most welcome my dearies. =P 

Please do join me in my next post where I'll be presenting my favourite drawings from last year. 

I am also gathering together images of my live drawing studies but wouldnt you know it, there are just so many! So i may just do a video going through my sketchbooks so you can see them all. Let me know if have any thoughts on this, how would you like to see my drawings presented? Do you have any creative ideas that you would like to see? Let me know in the comments bellow! 

Untill next time my lovlies! 

Chow4noW

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Art on Holiday!

Holiday art, because an artists work is never done! 

👾🎭🎮🎨🎬🎧✒️📜👍

So many emoticons! 

My (work) holiday began in Córdoba where most of my sketching took place. With so much fantastic structures, courtyards and cultural influences; of course there's a lot to draw! 

So here are some of my architecture studies....

With a few shots of me sketching!

I also had a lot of fun photographing a lot of what was around me, here are some of those shots. 

If you would like to see more of my pictures from my holiday, here's my instergram page (you might see some of these pictures there too!) 

And that was just Córdoba! 

Here are the few sketches that I made in Torremolinos... 

And I felt like it so I drew a sanuritaaa! 

Well that took me awhile to upload! 

And that was my holiday folks. And yeas, it was awesome. =P

Until next time!

~Chow4noW~

Photos Over December.

So as you might know, I love to take photographs, and I proudly title myself armature photographer. And as you do with a past time; I've taken a few pics over the December period and I would like to share the best of.

Vola!

Few! OK I am restraining my self and only putting ones up that I love and cant resist showing again. If you want to see more of my pictures, as you know I have a flicker account, but I also have a new instagram account! Yay!! 

You can follow me here at instagram.com/deni.santana/

And a few that were not in December that I didn't share before! 

Ok i'm done. For now. (>‿◠)✌

Until next time,

~Chow4noW~

Chana!

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One of those days...

Just one of those days it seems.  I thought I was being a little crazy with my outfit but obviously my day wasn't wacky enough. So on this particular day I decided that I was going to go out and do some nice watercolour sketches of some statues in the graveyard for my blog; seems simple enough.

I began my journey and lo, I found a bracelet; which was fabulous. I snapped that baby on and though yay lucky me. Then after waiting for half an hour for a bus, (if you live in London you know how irritating it is to even wait more than 10 minutes for a bus)  and after left, halfway through the ride it decided to stop and go on diversion, so I had to wait another 15 mins for the next one to come, -_-. 

Love my jelly bracelet too! 

Celtic design bracelet

So when I eventually get to the graveyard I meet a strange man who keeps talking to me, but I can't understand a word he is saying. Eventually I manage to slip away from him and find a perch far, far away to do my sketch. 

My Watercolor sketching perch and subject.

Ok not so random you're thinking,  but wait, theres more. 

Angle flower girl

On my way out of the graveyard and park area, I meet another guy on a bike and he insists on trying to talk to me, after my last experience i've learned my lesson of going to the graveyard to sketch in a space print leggings. 

Then on my journey home I saw an array of characters that were so eccentric that I thought they should all star in main roles. A man in a moleskin 3 1/4 length jacket topped with a fedora hat and gloves. Nice out fit, but on a day where its 20 something; well, hunny its a bit hot for that. Then I saw a striking red flowing dress adorning a male riding a bike down the motorway. Oh and a summer straw hat.  

 Then I when I eventually got home after a long, rush hour journey home, I eat strawberries and a burger accompanied with avocado and cashew nut, topped with pomegranate and vinaigrette sauce drizzled on top. Its strange ohhh M G it was soo good you have no idea. (sorry no burger in the pic above, I was too hungry and the burger was cooking here. )

And then MACAROOONS!!!  

And they were delicious too. =p. 

So overall, not your usual day, right? 

(⊙.⊙(☉_☉)⊙.⊙)

Chana

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Portraits with watercolour.

                 So this week i'm focusing on getting at least three images sketched and painted with the theme of 'Feminine Strong Female Characters'. This was, I guess inspired by the many articles i've seen as of late that are discussing how strong female leads in movies at the moment seem to have great character but no point in the plot line; which makes them almost null-void. Or the behavioral patterns that we comply onto younger adults/children, such as girls like pretty things and boys throw rocks... I won't go into it here though. But, this is what I have been reading recently ergo, these drawings. 

My first image I had a 'Bride' or 'Wedding'  agenda while I was drawing it. 

I wanted a gentle character but an intense but subtle approach to her looking at the 'camera', as it were. 

And while, yes, getting married may not be a strong premise for a female character, I wanted to portray her as a 'I have power like a queen' strong. Which is why the dress isn't white and I wanted an integral and lady like quality within the character making her strong through perseverance.  Respectable like, if that jumble of words made sense.

I didn't actually take a picture of this in pencil, but this was possibly at a 2-1/4 way through. I'm not sure I like this one. I messed up with the golden crown and tried a variety of things before I eventually just covered the thing in gold pen.  Can you tell the theme? 

                                                   

Yay, its Alice in Wonderland, the Red Queen, who has just taken the Queen of Diamonds crown. tut, tut. 

 And Last but not least this little lady. I'm not sure what I intended with this one, gentleness definitely. but also I think I just wanted to do a pretty lady. =p

Chana

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